Winfried W. Wilcke IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (winfriedwilcke@us.ibm.com). Dr. Wilcke is a program director at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he started the Intelligent Bricks project and IceCube implementation in 2001. He was a Senior Manager at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, responsible for Victor/Vulcan research, later commercialized in IBM SP supercomputers. As Director of Architecture (later Chief Technical Officer) of HaL computers, he was deeply involved in the creation of the 64-bit SPARC** architecture. Dr. Wilcke received a Ph.D. degree in nuclear physics and previously worked at the University of Rochester and at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.

Robert B. Garner IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (robgarn@us.ibm.com). Mr. Garner received his M.S.E.E. degree from Stanford University. Before joining the IBM Research Division in 2001 to work in the IceCube project, he worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Sun Microsystems, and Brocade Communications.

Claudio Fleiner IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (fleiner@us.ibm.com). Dr. Fleiner received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Prior to joining the IBM Almaden Research Center, he worked at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and Transmeta. Dr. Fleiner's research interests include large storage systems, distributed computing, and computer networks.

Richard F. Freitas IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (freitas@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Freitas received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Freitas is currently exploring the use of nonvolatile solid-state memory technology for storage systems.

Richard A. Golding IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (rgolding@us.ibm.com). Dr. Golding received a Ph.D. degree for work on weak-consistency distributed systems. He was previously an architect at Panasas and a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He currently leads the Collective Intelligent Bricks software effort.

Joseph S. Glider IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (gliderj@almaden.ibm.com). Mr. Glider is a Senior Technical Staff Member and manager in charge of the Intelligent Bricks Storage Software project at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He received a B.S.E.E. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Glider's research interests include distributed storage systems and fault-tolerant storage systems.

Deepak R. Kenchammana-Hosekote IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (kencham@us.ibm.com). Dr. Kenchammana-Hosekote received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota. He has been at the IBM Almaden Research Center since 1997 working on various RAID and distributed storage systems.

James L. Hafner IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (hafner@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Hafner received a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois. He later joined the IBM Research Division and has worked in diverse areas, including number theory, complexity theory, image databases, and storage-system protocols. Dr. Hafner currently works in the advanced RAID project.

K. Moidin Mohiuddin IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (moidinkm@us.ibm.com). Dr. Mohiuddin received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1982 and has been with the IBM Research Division since that time. He is currently Senior Manager of Advanced Storage Systems at the IBM Almaden Research Center, which includes the Intelligent Bricks project.

KK Rao IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (kkrao@us.ibm.com). Mr. Rao is a Distinguished Engineer in storage systems. He received B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, joining the IBM Research Division in 2002. Mr. Rao has been working on advanced RAID algorithms, reliability of distributed storage systems, and scale-out storage systems.

Ralph A. Becker-Szendy IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (ralphbsz@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Becker-Szendy received physics degrees (Dipl.Physiker) from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Hawaii. Before joining the IBM Research Division in 2001, he worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Dr. Becker-Szendy works on distributed storage (the StorageTank file system) and storage performance.

Theodore M. Wong IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (theowong@us.ibm.com). Dr. Wong received a B.A. degree from Oxford University, an M.E. degree from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a Research Staff Member since 2003, working on algorithms for automatic storage resource management.

Omer A. Zaki IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (omerzaki@us.ibm.com). Mr. Zaki is a member of the Advanced Storage Systems Group. He received a B.S. degree in computer science and mathematics from Angelo State University and an M.S. degree in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Mr. Zaki's interests are in storage systems and databases.

Manuel Hernandez IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (manny@almaden.ibm.com). Mr. Hernandez provides electrical engineering prototype and automation solutions to the scientific community at the IBM Almaden Research Center and other IBM sites. He received a B.S.E.E. degree from California Polytechnic State University.

Kenneth R. Fernandez IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (kfernand@us.ibm.com). Mr. Fernandez is a mechanical designer with the Science and Technology Department at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He has been involved in prototyping and design of research and test equipment for computing and medical instrumentation since 1985. Mr. Fernandez was responsible for the mechanical design of the IceCube base platform and cooling systems.

Harald Huels IBM Engineering & Technology Services, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Hechtsheimer Strasse 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany (huelsh@de.ibm.com). Mr. Huels studied communications and microprocessor technologies at the Universities of Giessen and Friedberg, Germany. He was the chief designer of the processor electronics of IceCube. Mr. Huels is currently responsible for the hardware architecture of PowerPC*- and Intel x86-based servers.

Heinz Lenk Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Institut für Physik, Staudingerweg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany (lenkh@uni-mainz.de). Mr. Lenk studied electronics at the Kaiserslautern Technical University, Germany. He joined IBM Mainz in 1977 as a test engineer, working on automated test systems for disk drive mechanics, electronics, and heads. Mr. Lenk retired from IBM in 2003 and is currently a development engineer at Johannes Gutenberg University.

Klaus Smolin IBM Engineering & Technology Services, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Hechtsheimer Strasse 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany (smolin@de.ibm.com). Mr. Smolin studied electronics and computer science in Berlin. He joined IBM in 1994 and developed disk drive diagnostic applications, Linux device drivers, PCI add-in cards, and a PCI Express Interface for a new blade server.

Manfred Ries IBM Engineering & Technology Services, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Hechtsheimer Strasse 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany (mries@de.ibm.com). Mr. Ries joined IBM in 1974 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He has worked in the design and modeling of mechanical devices, test equipment, design studies for throughput, and 3D solid modeling and design. His current interests are in finite element analysis for fluid flows and heat transfer simulations.

Carsten Goettert IBM Engineering & Technology Services, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Hechtsheimer Strasse 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany (cgoetter@de.ibm.com). Mr. Goettert received a B.A. degree in engineering. He designed the power systems for IceCube and Cell Broadband Engine processor in 2003. His current interest is in highly efficient power system design.

Thomas Picunko IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (tpicunko@us.ibm.com). Mr. Picunko is a Senior Engineer in the Central Scientific Services Department. He received an M.S.E.E. degree from New York University. He conducts engineering development projects for IBM internal customers. Mr. Picunko received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his work on a patterned wafer inspection system.

Barry J. Rubin IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (brubin@us.ibm.com). Dr. Rubin received a Ph.D. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has worked on all aspects of electrical package analysis and is currently interested in gridding and hierarchical algorithms and techniques for accurate, robust calculations.

Howard Kahn Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 323 Donaldson Brown Hall, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060 (howardkahn@gmail.com). Mr. Kahn graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and is currently working on an M.S. degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He participated in the IceCube project as an intern at the IBM Almaden Research Center.

Timothy Loo University of California, 205 Cory Hall, Berkeley, California 94720 (timloo@gmail.com). Mr. Loo received a B.S. degree in 2005 and is pursuing an M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. As an intern at the IBM Almaden Research Center, Mr. Loo contributed to the research of the capacitive couplers and the construction of the IceCube bricks.

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